> You might as well say neither side are perfect (which no one disagrees with).

Maybe if you want to manufacture consent for the broken system which continues to make lives worse with each passing year instead of confront it.

If you're trying to find agreement, maybe say both sides are responsible for widespread misery, and corruption/exploitable systems and perpetual settling for lesser-evils among "voters" is what keeps us on this path.

And before anybody tries to blame the non-voters, abstaining from voting in a broken system is indeed a vote.